When I posted on mommy boards people would argue that polio really wasn't that bad. Freaking idiots

I think a lot of women who are into extreme attachment parenting do so because they have issues with needing to be needed and the desire to be a martyr mom. You can read it in the posts and blogs of these women how boastful they are when they talk about how their kids can't be left with anyone but them (even dad) and how they can't sleep without being next to them and how selfless they are breastfeeding exclusively (and their kids won't eat anything else so it's ok). Then they get to be school age and their parents home school them because they just can't bear to be separated from their kids and they'd miss them too much.